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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Happy New Year, America! What the Obama Victory Really Means

Submission By Greg Lewis

Barack Obama is
arguably the most corrupt American president since Warren G. Harding. From
Project Fast & Furious to
Benghazi, the president is alleged
to have known nothing as events were playing out, and even less after they
finally came to light. The real problem is that
America may well
be too far gone down the road toward becoming a fading western capitalistic
democracy — as so many European nations already are — to
care.

In light of the so-called
“fiscal cliff” negotiations, the question of Obama’s true intentions toward the
United States
come into stark relief.

The extension of
unemployment benefits the president is negotiating as part of his fiscal cliff
spending increase package has nothing to do with helping those without
jobs.

Like his
administration’s policy of encouraging more and more people to take foodstamps,
the extension of unemployment benefits is part of his true aim: To bring America
under the thumb of a soviet-style dictatorship where government controls
American citizens to the point of reducing as many of us as possible to living
subsistence-level lives in the name of “fairness.”

And the fact that America is
moving toward becoming a nation of $8-an-hour part-time workers because of the
enormous labyrinth of new anti-business regulations Obamacare is bringing into
being? It’s exactly what Barack Obama wants.

The middle class has
always been the enemy of the political left, and it's no different with Obama.
The underclass and the überclass is what it’s all about, and those in the middle
are heading toward the bottom.

It's exactly this political
division that was his goal all along. And the fact that voters who are dependent
on the government and who buy into the Democrats' perverse idea of, for
instance, what women ought to be and what they should want out of life are now
part of the Obama majority . . . I'm betting the president is OK with that,
too.

Because truly healthy,
moral, independent women, married
or single, are something no leftist dictatorship can countenance. Real women
could bring this government down next month if they stood together for the
principles that have made
America a great
place for women to live and work.

Economic growth at the
level needed to pull us out of the current economic malaise and stave off the
coming depression is the last thing Obama wants to see. More American
high-paying jobs is the furthest thing from the president's vision of
America's
future.

His record-pace regulations
agenda is a perfect example: On the day after Labor Day, 2012, the Obama
administration posted 165 new business-crushing regulations and notifications on
the website Reguations.gov. In the 90 days before that, it had posted 6,125 new regulations and notices.

Among the new regulations is
one that ups the required flying time to become a commercial airline pilot from
250 hours to 1,500 hours. It’s Obama’s way of attempting to destroy the airlines
industry as he is the energy industry.

By the middle of the new
year, we’re likely to see the beginning of a shortage of airline pilots serious
enough to reduce commercial flights to the point where you might have trouble
booking a ticket and airline revenues will begin to spiral downward, even as the
price of flights goes through the roof.

This, however, will
not result in a reduction of the number of TSA screeners, who, as unionized
government employees, are guaranteed lifetime jobs and medical and retirement
benefits at a colossally unsustainable level.

With John Boehner continuing
to veer back and forth from disturbing sycophancy (Mr. President, “we’re ready to be led”) to his “incomprehensible” faux conservatism (“Everything is on the table,” but tax hikes are “off the table” and “Without
significant spending cuts and reforms . . . there will be no debt limit
increase”), and with the president promising to veto any legislation that
doesn’t include tax hikes that have no effect on our nation’s insolvency, we’re
beginning to understand that we’re not simply at the edge of the fiscal cliff,
we’re well over it and on our way down, gaining speed according to the law of
failing economies, a law no Democrat will ever understand.

The chances that Obama will
do anything different — from his obtuse and illegal non-submission of budgets,
to his ignoring what little sound economic advice has come his way and his
insistence on improving unionized government workers’ compensation and benefits
even as those of private sector employees fall precipitously — are
nil.

He’s intellectually
incapable of even the most rudimentary understanding of economics, and even if
he were his ideological blinders would make it impossible for him to recognize
how they might be put to constructive use.

The corruption, the
divisiveness, the economic stranglehold this administration is imposing on
America will
continue unabated, given Republicans’ inability to make a coherent and
meaningful case against it, and the virtual impossibility of getting such a case
implemented even if they could articulate it.

The next four years promise
to be a time of hunkering down as jobs continue to retreat overseas where tax
policy is more favorable to business growth. They promise to see Americans’
standard of living continue its decline as more and more of the president’s
policies are implemented.

With no legitimate
congressional check on the president’s power, we can only hope that someone like
Marco Rubio emerges to lead the Republican party forward on a conservative path
while presenting the message in a way that makes it clear that we’re no longer
striped-pants Republicans but a party that can lead all of the people of this country — even
those who don’t understand that they need to be led — out of the abyss into
which Barack Obama has caused us to plunge.

Greg Lewis Ph.D. is the author of The Politics of Anger, which systematically lays out the communist/socialist foundations of the liberal political agenda by examining the important writings of leftist thinkers of the past 75 years.